Tanks are direct-fire guns, and if we are on the anti-slope, then it is clear that tank guns do not play a role.

But...... And what if the tank went around the anti-slope to the positive slope along the road on the side of the mountain? The long-range, large-caliber tank guns were undoubtedly a great threat to us.

The Yue devils, who are good at highland battles, undoubtedly know this, but they have been holding back...... One of the reasons why they didn't want us to make us realize that they already had the means to capture Heights 581 and were prepared, and I have to admit that they did a good job of this and caught us off guard now. The other is because the Vietnamese army has too few tanks or too few shells in the encirclement of our army, and these tanks and shells are not enough to pose a threat to us.

So they just waited, and during this they even launched a few symbolic attacks...... These attacks were aimed at reassuring us with human lives, and we waited until the Vietnamese tank reinforcements arrived.

It's obvious...... These tanks must have come to reinforcements with enough shells to deal with us, and once they all go around our front slope and fire our positions indiscriminately...... Then our position is in danger!

Seeing this, I couldn't help but curse in my heart, how could I not have thought that the Yue devil would use this trick? As the saying goes, where there is a spear, there is a shield, and we will fight happily with American equipment on this high ground...... The more devils are not fools, they will always find some way to deal with us!

Since it's going to deal with us...... The Vietnamese army has no artillery and can't hit this plane, so what else will there be besides tanks?

But now it was useless to regret it, and I immediately shouted to the artillery observers not far away: "Marx! Call for fire support immediately. Block the road with artillery fire! ”

"Yes!" Marx also knew that this matter was a matter of life and death for our positions. So I didn't dare to slack off. Grab the walkie-talkie and start calling for long-range artillery fire.

"Deputy Company Commander!" I shouted at Zhang Zuoliang: "Immediately organize a few demolition teams and prepare to intercept the tank!" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Zuoliang answered, and immediately transferred the bazooka shooters of each unit.

In order for the Vietnamese tank units to bypass the road and enter our positive slope, they must pass through the narrow valley on the left side of the 581 heights, and now our only chance is to try our best to cooperate with long-range artillery to stop the Vietnamese tanks on the other side. Or let them pass a few less...... There is no doubt about it: the fewer Vietnamese tanks come in, the less pressure and casualties we will endure.

But before we could open fire, several tanks in front of us were the first to strike...... These are all American-style tanks. There are five of them. The Fifth Infantry Division is an American mechanic, and the tanks used are, of course, American tanks.

Because they were all camouflaged in turf, it was difficult for me to identify their models, but I think they were old M41 or M60 tanks......

weishenme: I would say they're old?

This is not to say that the American equipment is bad, but that the American equipment equipped by Vietnam is relatively backward...... You must know that Vietnam's American-style equipment was taken from the South Vietnamese troops, and the United States would certainly not support Vietnam, which favored China and the Soviet Union after the war, so the American-style equipment captured by Vietnam could not be effectively maintained, let alone upgraded, in the years after the war.

So now, a few years later...... It is a miracle that these American tanks can still be driven and even play a role on the battlefield. Or maybe it is...... Because of the large number of captured tanks, the more devils used the method of dismantling one tank and repairing another part of the tank, so that they can still appear on the battlefield today.

Regardless, we're now facing a couple of American tanks that can move and fire.

It should be said that they are not yet a great threat to us. One of them is that their tank guns are not on target...... Some people may say, isn't the characteristic of this American-style equipment is its long range and high accuracy? How can you say that the American tank is not accurate.

American-style equipment is indeed highly accurate. But the tank gun is a little different, especially the M60 and M41 tanks are still equipped with rifled guns...... A rifled gun is also engraved with rifling in the breech, and the rifling engraved would have been more accurate, but the fatal disadvantage of rifled guns is that they have a short life...... The reason for this was that the rifling would be smoothed out during firing, and the barrel would have to be replaced after more than a hundred shells, a fatal disadvantage that was not raised to 500 rounds until modern Britain through a special process.

Because there was no support from the United States, the Vietnamese army was definitely unable to replace the barrel, so this is said to be a rifled gun, but in fact it is a rifled gun that is barely used by rifling, and its accuracy is not even as good as that of a smoothbore gun......

This is not? A volley of shells came up so far away from our trenches and positions that we didn't know where they were aiming.

On the contrary, the strafing of a few anti-aircraft machine guns on those tanks still posed some threat to us, and they did not care whether they were accurate or not, and they swept at us from afar.

Followed by...... A Vietnamese company again charged at us under the cover of these tank fire.

Obviously, their charge was not intended to take our high ground, but to attract our firepower or interfere with our line of sight, so as to cover the passage of tank troops through the canyon.

Of course, I knew this, so I immediately ordered: "The deputy company commander commands the battle, and the demolition team follows me!" ”

As he spoke, he took the dozen or so fighters who had just gathered and moved towards the left side of the high ground.

I am not worried about the frontal attack of the Vietnamese army, just relying on the few broken tanks of the Vietnamese devils cannot change the huge gap in firepower between each other, so the focus is still on the tank unit that the Vietnamese army came to reinforce.

As it turned out, I was right, and we ran to the side of 581 to take a look...... The rows of tanks were all thick-skinned Soviet-style tanks, and many of them were T62s, our old rivals.

This made them get around and get ...... Especially the T62's 115 mm main gun, that thing is a smoothbore gun, the advantage of the smoothbore gun is that the shell does not rotate and flies and has greater kinetic energy, and there is greater kinetic energy, which means that there is a greater impulse, and its original intention is to hit the enemy tank to cause as much damage as possible, but if it is used in the destruction of tunnels...... There is no doubt that it will be more destructive.

"Marx!" I yelled at the artillery observer over the walkie-talkie, "What is that? Why hasn't the artillery fire arrived yet? ”

"Company commander!" Marx replied over the walkie-talkie: "Our artillery positions are now in the rear...... If we seal the canyon with artillery fire, we will most likely hit our own positions! ”

I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this: fuck, how the hell is this rear commanding...... The purpose of our capture of the 581 Heights is to block the logistics supply line of the Yue Devils, and it should be common sense to block the canyon with artillery fire, and it should be ready to set the coordinates for a long time, how can this problem still occur.

I found out later...... The order given to the artillery by the higher authorities was: "Prepare for artillery support for the second company interspersed with the 581 heights!" ”。 Since it is necessary to provide artillery support for the 581 heights, it is necessary to avoid the dead ends of the artillery fire as much as possible...... So the artillery unit moved to the flank and rear so that it could hit more places.

From this point of view, there are still big problems in the coordination and communication between our infantry and artillery in this era, for example, there is a serious tactical disagreement here.

Watching the tanks increase their horsepower through the canyon, I yelled into the walkie-talkie: "I can't care so much, all of them, go into the tunnel!" Order the artillery to open fire at once! ”

"Yes!" Marx answered, and immediately gave the order to fire the cannon through the walkie-talkie.

A dozen of us had just taken refuge in the tunnel when we heard a whistling sound in the air, followed by a violent shaking and explosion...... These shells are not like the mortar shells that the Yue devils fired before, they are like a giant holding a sledgehammer and constantly hitting the 581 heights, again and again...... It only shook the sand in our tunnels and kept falling down.

It is conceivable that this shell would have such a great power if it exploded nearby, if it had hit the tunnel directly...... One shot is enough, and you have to let it be shocked to death or buried alive inside.

Because of the potential for damage to our own tunnels, the shelling lasted only a few minutes...... As soon as the cannon stopped, we leaned out of the tunnel.

Boy...... This cannon smashed the few tanks that had just driven out of the canyon into scrap metal, and the other tanks were also blocked in the canyon and could not move.

When will you wait if you don't fight at this time?

As soon as I gave the order, the fighters picked up their weapons and pulled the trigger downward...... At that moment, several rockets whistled towards the Vietnamese tanks.

Although the hit rate of the bazooka is not high, and the distance we are from the canyon in a straight line is four or five hundred meters, which is far beyond the range of the bazooka, we are condescending, and a dozen people carry a total of seven bazookas, and they are all aimed at the same tank...... So this formed a rain of rockets, and then two rockets hit the tank very "lucky", followed by a "boom" explosion, and the tank soon burst into flames.

To know...... THE WEAKEST POSITION OF THE TANK'S ARMOR IS THE BOTTOM AND THE TOP, BECAUSE THESE TWO POSITIONS ARE RARE TO ENCOUNTER ENEMY ATTACKS, SO EVEN THE TOP ARMOR OF THE T62 IS ONLY 15 TO 30MM, SO THERE WILL BE NO REASON NOT TO BE PENETRATED IF HIT BY A ROCKET.

But we only had time to wreck a tank, and the anti-aircraft machine guns on the Vietnamese tanks quickly rained at us in patches of bullets, so that we couldn't poke our heads out to shoot.

On the other side, the powerful T62 quickly drove up and began to clear the wreck: pushing the wreckage of one tank after another to the side of the road...... (To be continued......)